[PATCH V2] status: add a flag to terse the output (issue4119)

Pulkit Goyal 7895pulkit at gmail.com
Mon Jun 19 17:39:43 EDT 2017


On Tue, Jun 20, 2017 at 2:45 AM, Danek Duvall <danek.duvall at oracle.com> wrote:
> I'd like to see some text in the help output that talks about -t and its
> arguments -- what are they, what do they mean, what it means to combine
> them, how to disable them.

Yeah that will be of great help to the users. Will add in V3 (or a followup).

>> +                if st[0:1] in terse:
>> +                    show.append(st)
>
> Is there a reason you're using [0:1] here instead of simply [0]?

Yes the reason is Python 3 because in that st[0] will return ascii value.
>>> a = b'abc'
>>> for i in range(len(a)):
...     print(a[i])
...
97
98
99


> I think you need some tests that actually end up tersing a directory that
> has only modified (or added, or ...) files.

Sure.


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